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Tulare Lake (/ t ʊ ˈ l ɛər i / ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River in surface area. [ 2 ]
Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake's depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.
People look at a full pool of water behind Schafer Dam forming Lake Success on the Tule River in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County east of Porterville, Calif., in March ...
Satellite images taken over the past six weeks have captured the re-emergence of Tulare Lake in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Satellite images taken over the past six weeks have captured the ...
Buena Vista Lake, Kern Lake and Tulare Lake are remnants of Lake Corcoran. [5] The lake is the source of the Corcoran Clay, [2] a lacustrine unit of the Tulare and Turlock Lake formations. [7] It also influenced sedimentation off the coast of California. [8] The lake existed between about 758,000 and 665,000 years ago. [2]
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Its outlet was the Arroyo de la Laguna, which flowed for a short distance before joining Alameda Creek. [5] The Tulare Lake area (Amador Valley and Livermore Valley) was inhabited by groups of the Ohlone people prior to the 19th century, [6] [7] in particular the Pelnen tribe near Pleasanton. [8]
The last time there was major flooding in the Tulare Lake basin, after a very wet winter of 1982-83, the drying-out process in the lakebed took about two years.